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A regression-based damage detection method for structures subjected to changing environmental and operational conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Soo Lon Wah, W., Chen, Y. T., & Owen, J. S. (2021). A regression-based damage detection method for structures subjected to changing environmental and operational conditions. Engineering Structures, 228, Article 111462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111462

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Damage detection of civil engineering structures during the past decade has focused on eliminating the effects of the changing environmental and operational conditions, from the effects of damage. In the literature, a regression a... Read More about A regression-based damage detection method for structures subjected to changing environmental and operational conditions.

ROP18-Mediated Transcriptional Reprogramming of HEK293T Cell Reveals New Roles of ROP18 in the Interplay Between Toxoplasma gondii and the Host Cell (2020)
Journal Article
Li, J.-X., He, J.-J., Elsheikha, H. M., Ma, J., Xu, X.-P., & Zhu, X.-Q. (2020). ROP18-Mediated Transcriptional Reprogramming of HEK293T Cell Reveals New Roles of ROP18 in the Interplay Between Toxoplasma gondii and the Host Cell. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, Article 586946. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.586946

Toxoplasma gondii secretes a number of virulence-related effector proteins, such as the rhoptry protein 18 (ROP18). To further broaden our understanding of the molecular functions of ROP18, we examined the transcriptional response of human embryonic... Read More about ROP18-Mediated Transcriptional Reprogramming of HEK293T Cell Reveals New Roles of ROP18 in the Interplay Between Toxoplasma gondii and the Host Cell.

In Silico Food-Drug Interaction: A Case Study of Eluxadoline and Fatty Meal (2020)
Journal Article
Maruca, A., Lupia, A., Rocca, R., Keszthelyi, D., Corsetti, M., & Alcaro, S. (2020). In Silico Food-Drug Interaction: A Case Study of Eluxadoline and Fatty Meal. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(23), Article 9127. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239127

Food-drug interaction is an infrequently considered aspect in clinical practice. Usually, drugs are taken together with meals and what follows may adversely affect pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties, and hence, the therapeutic effects. In... Read More about In Silico Food-Drug Interaction: A Case Study of Eluxadoline and Fatty Meal.

Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention (2020)
Journal Article
Claire, R., Gluud, C., Berlin, I., Coleman, T., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2020). Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01169-7

Background: Assessing benefits and harms of health interventions is resource-intensive and often requires feasibility and pilot trials followed by adequately powered randomised clinical trials. Data from feasibility and pilot trials are used to infor... Read More about Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention.

Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988 (2020)
Book
Blackburn, D. (2020). Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. Manchester University Press

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all. The 'Penguin Specials', a series of current affairs books authored by leading in... Read More about Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988.

Understanding the lost functionality of ethanol in non-alcoholic beer using sensory evaluation, aroma release and molecular hydrodynamics (2020)
Journal Article
Ramsey, I., Dinu, V., Linforth, R., Yakubov, G. E., Harding, S. E., Yang, Q., Ford, R., & Fisk, I. (2020). Understanding the lost functionality of ethanol in non-alcoholic beer using sensory evaluation, aroma release and molecular hydrodynamics. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 20855. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77697-5

© 2020, The Author(s). Consumer sensory evaluation, aroma release analysis and biophysical protein analysis were used to investigate the effect of ethanol on the release and perception of flavour in beer (lager and stout) at different ethanol levels... Read More about Understanding the lost functionality of ethanol in non-alcoholic beer using sensory evaluation, aroma release and molecular hydrodynamics.

The transition from children’s services to adult services for young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the CATCh-uS mixed-methods study (2020)
Journal Article
Janssens, A., Eke, H., Price, A., Newlove-Delgado, T., Blake, S., Ani, C., Asherson, P., Beresford, B., Emmens, T., Hollis, C., Logan, S., Paul, M., Sayal, K., Young, S., & Ford, T. (2020). The transition from children’s services to adult services for young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the CATCh-uS mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(42), 1-154. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08420

Background
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was previously seen as a childhood developmental disorder, so adult mental health services were not set up to support attention deficit hyperactivity disorder patients who became too old for child... Read More about The transition from children’s services to adult services for young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the CATCh-uS mixed-methods study.

Dark energy loopholes some time after GW170817 (2020)
Journal Article
Bordin, L., Copeland, E. J., & Padilla, A. (2020). Dark energy loopholes some time after GW170817. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020(11), Article 063. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/063

We revisit the constraints on scalar tensor theories of modified gravity following the purge of GW170817. We pay particular attention to dynamical loopholes where the anomalous speed of propagation of the gravitational wave can vanish on-shell, when... Read More about Dark energy loopholes some time after GW170817.

Relationship-based practice and the creation of therapeutic change in long-term work: social work as a holding relationship (2020)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H., Warwick, L., Disney, T., Leigh, J., Cooner, T. S., & Beddoe, L. (2022). Relationship-based practice and the creation of therapeutic change in long-term work: social work as a holding relationship. Social Work Education, 41(2), 209-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1837105

Relationship-based practice has become a dominant theory through which what goes on between social workers and service users is understood. However, the presence of a relationship explains little and much more critical attention needs to be given to... Read More about Relationship-based practice and the creation of therapeutic change in long-term work: social work as a holding relationship.

A Systematic Review of Treatment Interventions for Metacarpal Shaft Fractures in Adults (2020)
Journal Article
Taha, R. H. M., Grindlay, D., Deshmukh, S., Montgomery, A., Davis, T. R. C., & Karanatana, A. (2022). A Systematic Review of Treatment Interventions for Metacarpal Shaft Fractures in Adults. Hand, 17(5), 869-878. https://doi.org/10.1177/1558944720974363

Metacarpal shaft fractures are common hand injuries that predominantly affect younger patients. There is wide variability in their treatment with no consensus on best practice. We performed a systematic review to assess the breadth and quality of ava... Read More about A Systematic Review of Treatment Interventions for Metacarpal Shaft Fractures in Adults.

The Quest for Ecological Validity in Hearing Science: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Advance It (2020)
Journal Article
Keidser, G., Naylor, G., Brungart, D., Caduff, A., Campos, J., Carlile, S., Carpenter, M., Grimm, G., Hohmann, V., Holube, I., Launer, S., Lunner, T., Mehra, R., Rapport, F., Slaney, M., & Smeds, K. (2020). The Quest for Ecological Validity in Hearing Science: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Advance It. Ear and Hearing, 41(Supplement 1), 5S-19S. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000944

Ecological validity is a relatively new concept in hearing science. It has been cited as relevant with increasing frequency in publications over the past 20 years, but without any formal conceptual basis or clear motive. The sixth Eriksholm Workshop... Read More about The Quest for Ecological Validity in Hearing Science: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Advance It.

Readfish enables targeted nanopore sequencing of gigabase-sized genomes (2020)
Journal Article
Payne, A., Holmes, N., Clarke, T., Munro, R., Debebe, B., & Loose, M. (2021). Readfish enables targeted nanopore sequencing of gigabase-sized genomes. Nature Biotechnology, 39, 442-450. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00746-x

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. Nanopore sequencers can be used to selectively sequence certain DNA molecules in a pool by reversing the voltage across individual nanopores to reject specific sequences,... Read More about Readfish enables targeted nanopore sequencing of gigabase-sized genomes.

Single Integration for Multi-objective Control (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, L., Shao, S., Gao, F., Tarisciotti, L., Dragicevic, T., & Wheeler, P. (2020, November). Single Integration for Multi-objective Control. Presented at 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, IPEMC 2020 ECCE Asia, Nanjing, China (online)

The saturation issue with paralleled PI controllers in multi-objective control is investigated. Dual-Active-Bridge (DAB) enabled DC micro-grid stabilization is chosen as a case study. The DAB converter has two control objectives: battery current regu... Read More about Single Integration for Multi-objective Control.

By the light of the moon.... (2020)
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Macleod, D. (2020). By the light of the moon.... [Score]. Nottingham, Lakeside Arts

By the light of the moon is the first in a series of short works for toy piano, piano and electronics that draw upon the poetry of Edward Lear. In this work, I start with the third verse of Lear’s famed poem, The Owl and the Pussy-cat, in which the c... Read More about By the light of the moon.....

Opening a Poetic Container: Educative Learning from a Painful Poetry Performance (2020)
Journal Article
Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2021). Opening a Poetic Container: Educative Learning from a Painful Poetry Performance. Studying Teacher Education, 17(1), 100-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2020.1852919

The catalyst for this self-study research was the performance of a sequence of poems at a colloquium for South African deans of education. The poems portray my interpretation of my students’ stories of physically and emotionally painful experiences a... Read More about Opening a Poetic Container: Educative Learning from a Painful Poetry Performance.

Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats (2020)
Journal Article
Wait, J., Burns, C., Jones, T., Harper, Z., Allen, E., Langley-Evans, S. C., & Voigt, J. (2021). Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(3), 572-581. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22063

The cafeteria diet (CD), an experimental diet that mimics the obesogenic Western diet, can impair memory in adult rats. However, the suckling period is also particularly susceptible to diet‐induced behavioural modification. Here, following exposure t... Read More about Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats.

Reliability oriented thermal management of aircraft power converters (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harikumaran, J., Buticchi, G., MIgliazza, G., Wheeler, P., & Galea, M. (2020, November). Reliability oriented thermal management of aircraft power converters. Presented at 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2020-ECCE Asia), Nanjing, China

On board electrical power generation continue to increase as more aircraft systems are being electrified. Increasingly power converters are the interface of power generation and electrical loads in aircrafts. Reliability of aircraft power electronics... Read More about Reliability oriented thermal management of aircraft power converters.

Information standards in retailing? A review and future outlook (2020)
Journal Article
Hanninen, M., Luoma, J., & Mitronen, L. (2021). Information standards in retailing? A review and future outlook. International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 31(2), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2020.1845224

Purpose As a result of the ongoing digitalisation of retailing, we are now seeing increasing interest from many actors participating in the retail value chain to redefine the information standards and protocols through which manufacturers, wholesaler... Read More about Information standards in retailing? A review and future outlook.

Can audit effort (hours) reduce a firm’s cost of capital? Evidence from South Korea (2020)
Journal Article
Mali, D., & Lim, H.-J. (2021). Can audit effort (hours) reduce a firm’s cost of capital? Evidence from South Korea. Accounting Forum, 45(2), 171-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2020.1848347

In this paper, we examine the relationship between audit effort measured as audit hours and a firm’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Using a sample of Korean listed firms, we hypothesise a potentially bi-directional relationship between WACC... Read More about Can audit effort (hours) reduce a firm’s cost of capital? Evidence from South Korea.